Participant number | Profession | Setting/context: patient population | Device | Metrics of interest |
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1 | Physiotherapist | Hospital (inpatient - day and home rehab): orthopaedic; stroke; traumatic injuries; post-surgical functional decline Research (community): orthopaedic; stroke; traumatic injuries; post-surgical functional decline | Fitbit Zip® Patients’ own if available StepWatch™ (research) | Steps |
2 | Physiotherapist, researcher | Hospital (inpatient - day and home rehab): Orthopaedic, neurological, post-surgical functional decline, cancer | Fitbit Zip® | Steps |
3 | Physiotherapist (Director Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology) | Hospital (inpatient - day and home rehab): Musculoskeletal/orthopaedic; aged and palliative care; post-surgical functional decline | Fitbit Zip® | Steps |
4 | Physiotherapist | Hospital (inpatient - rehab): Orthopaedic; stroke; post-surgical functional decline; functional decline medical | Fitbit Zip® Patients’ own if available | Steps |
5 | Physiotherapist | Hospital (inpatient - home rehab): Orthopaedic; stroke; functional decline medical; cardiac rehab | Fitbit Zip® | Steps |
6 | Physiotherapist | Hospital (inpatient - rehab): Brain injuries | Fitbit Zip® Patients’ own if available | Steps |
7 | Physiotherapist | Hospital (inpatient - rehab): Stroke | Fitbit Charge® | Steps |
8 | Exercise Physiologist | Community clinic: Stress management; ‘overtrainers’ | Whoop Band and app | HR; HRV; Activity intensity minutes; Energy expenditure; Sleep/recovery |
9 | Exercise Physiologist | Community clinic: Musculoskeletal injuries; metabolic | Whoop Band and app Clients’ own if available | HR; HRV; Activity intensity minutes; Energy expenditure; Sleep/recovery |
10 | Exercise Physiologist | Community clinic: Workplace injuries (musculoskeletal injuries and trauma, amputations, fractures); neurological conditions; brain injuries; intellectual disabilities; | Patients’ own if available Purchase through insurer - typically Fitbits or Garmin | Steps Activity intensity minutes Sleep |
11 | Exercise Physiologist | Community clinic, Hospital (inpatient rehab): Arthritis; diabetes; musculoskeletal injuries; cardiovascular; post-traumatic stress disorder | Fitbit (couldn’t remember model Patients’ own if available | Steps HR Activity intensity minutes |
12 | Exercise Physiologist | Community clinic: Obesity (pre-bariatric surgery); metabolic; cardiovascular Hospital (inpatient rehab): Stroke | Fitbit Charge® Patients’ own devices | Steps Activity minutes |
13 | Exercise Physiologist | Hospital (inpatient - home rehab): Stroke | Fitbit Zip® Patients’ own if available | Steps Activity intensity minutes |
14 | Researcher, Medical doctor (Anaesthetist) | Hospital (ICU): ICU survivors; significant cardiorespiratory and cardiovascular conditions | Smartphone app (iPhones) Fitbit One®, Fitbit Flex® | Steps; GPS data |
15 | Researcher, Physiotherapist | Hospital (ICU): ICU survivors | ActivPAL™ GENEActiv | ActivPAL™: Activity minutes GENEActiv: Steps |
16 | Researcher | Hospital (orthopaedics): Orthopaedic | GENEActiv | Activity intensity minutes; Energy expenditure |
17 | Researcher | Hospital (orthopaedics): Orthopaedic | GENEActiv | Activity intensity minutes Energy expenditure |
18 | Medical Doctor (consultant geriatrician) | Hospital and hospital-at-home: Geriatric | ActivPAL™ | Activity minutes; Sleep Gait speed |